Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:41:29 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.ORG> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010716084129.A504@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <20010712191017.B29406@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:10:17PM -0400 References: <20010712182844.A26646@moo.holy.cow> <20010712224021.95596.qmail@web13502.mail.yahoo.com> <20010712191017.B29406@moo.holy.cow>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:10:17PM -0400, parv wrote:
> ...in the end both will do the same thing: remove/delete all the
> installed software as listed in /var/db/pkg. if you go the 'pkg_info'=20
> route, you should add '-f' and or '-d' flag.=20
>=20
> if pkg_delete/xargs/shell complain that 'pipe broken', 'too many=20
> arguments', or some such, then you can try this...
>=20
> # find /var/db/pkg -type d -execdir pkg_delete -fd {} \;
This forks a pkg_delete command for every port found, thats expensive.
Why not use find/xargs combination in this case as well ?
( cd /var/db/pkg; find . -type d | xargs pkg_delete )
Andreas ///
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